Alcohol Makes Me Love Long Beach

I haven't drank in 2 weeks. This is a much more significant statement than I originally intended it to be. After what feels like a life time of aggressive boozing I decided it needed to come to a screeching halt. I've thought of this for a long time but never did it because I always had some event coming up that OMG WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER WITH BOOZE. After the league camping trip and going directly to a bar to get drunk while watching baseball, my body said knock it off and I finally listened to it. I gave myself a month of sobriety, and its been so much harder than I thought. The amount of time I spend thinking about booze is ridiculous. Trying to watch baseball sober is really hard, and October is the hardest baseball month of them all. I've made it 2 weeks and its felt like a fucking lifetime. This makes me never want to pick up a bottle of anything but water again. That's unrealistic but I find so many interesting things to do that don't involve alcohol.

This leads me to my next point. Long Beach is fun if you're drunk a lot. I find myself leaving LB pretty frequently to partake in sober activities. Its taken my love for this city down a notch. My friends here, most notably Matt, do not seem to remember/care that I choose to not drink. I've thought casually about moving up to LA because I am SO SICK OF DRIVING and I might as well live in the major city that's right down the street at some point in my life. I think its going to be a reality in June. My roommates and I decided to all part ways in June because we all want to live alone. I was planning on staying in Long Beach but plans have changed. I'm going to start applying to schools up in LA and see what pans out. After I figure out where I'm going in the fall, I will start looking for an LA address. It needs to be done because living somewhere based on how many fun bars are within walking distance from your house is assenine. I need to live where adventure and pals are, not vomit and cigarette butts.